Feed-regulator for flour-mills.



G. H. HOTTBL.

.25, 1910. 969,372. l Patented Sepp. 6,1910.

a device UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICEk GEORGE HENRY HOTTEL, OF STRASBURG, VIRGINIA.

FEED-REGULATOR FOR FLOUR-MILLS.

Specification of Letters Patent. Application led January 25, 1910. Serial No.

To all 'whom 'it may concern.'

Be it known that I, GEORGE H. HoT'inL, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Strasburg, in the county of Shenandoah and State of Virginia, have made certain new and useful Improvements in Feed- Regulators for F lour-Mills, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in devices for feeding grain to the rolls of flour mills, and it consists in the constructions, combinations and arrangements hereinafter described and claimed.

An object of my invention is to provide in which the feeding' of the grain is accomplished by gravity, without the necessity of employing ecceiitrics, springs, vibrating attachments, with their necessary accompaniment of shafting, pulleys, or belts.

A further object of my invention is to provide a device in which the grain may be fed in a thin stream to the rolls at a varying speed with a novel means for directing tie grain to one portion or another of the l, and novel means for adjusting the directing means.

Other objects and advantages will appear in the following specification and the novel features of the device will be particularly pointed out in the appended claim.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, iii which,

Figure l is a perspective View showing one embodiment of my invention; Fig. 2 is inclined shelves; and Fig. 3 means for attaching` the guide or distributing members.

In carrying out my invention I provide the two side members A and B. Iivotally secured between these side members is a series of inclined shelves like those shown in Fig. l. The upper shelf C is provided with a series of wedge shaped distributing members D These distributing members are secured to the shelf C by means of screws wliicl through the under one edge, while at the other edge of the shelf is an upturned curved Patented Sept. 6, 1910. 539,986.

portion g2.

Underneath the curved portion is an L- shaped Hange g3 which abuts against the lower side of the curved flange the latter. ported between th means of screws through the sides the ends of the she t e drawing.

From the foregoing rious parts of the devic of may be readily coming from the chut C and may most shelf to strengthen The shelves are pivotally supe members A and B by which are inserted and which extend into ti'ibutiiig members D portion of the shelf Ii l Iore over,

shelves, since the direction of is considerable lves as clearly shown in description of the vae the operation thereunderstood.

e K falls on the topbe directed by the dis- The grain toward any desired immediately below.

inclined with shelf even when inclination to the grain meets the curved tangent and the motion is changed gradually.

There is therefore not the tendency to rebound as there would be with a straight flange.

By first loosening' the screws H the shel desired angle. The ii otally mounted on thereby eliminatiii ing of stock. I claim:

bers, with a its ides

iig grain venly in a thin stream the biincliing and then tightening ves may be set at any pper shelf C bein@ longitudinal axis, may

a simple yet effective .to the roll. The

mills, the

said side meinbers, the upper of said distributing shelves being provided with shaped distributi mounted near their b lower edge of the incli a series of wedge members pivotally ase portions on the ned shelf, screws for each Shelf Serving as pivots for its shelf and for preventing` the spilling ot the grain as a means for retaining the Shelf in an infrom of the shelf.

dined position and av curved ianfe on the upper edge oi7 each inclined sneiiD adapted GEORGE HENRY HOTTEL' to receive the grain from the shelf above it XVitnesses;

and to act as a turning member for dis- L. Dion BELL,

tributing the grain evenly and as a guard C. L. KNEISLEY. 

